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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Lake Mills.

Our newspaper information for Lake Mills is based on data taken from the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.

The following list contains the names of 5 papers that were published in the immediate area of Lake Mills. In addition, the list contains another 140 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Lake Mills. In total, we've identified 145 papers within 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> of Lake Mills.

Newspapers Published In Lake Mills ...

We know of 5 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Lake Mills:

  • Lake Mills Dispatch (from 1867)
  • Lake Mills Leader (from 1882)
  • Lake Mills Spike (from 1878)
  • The Bugle Blast (from 1863)
  • The Era (from 1875)
    • Years of publication:  1875 to 18??
    • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
    • Catalog Card for The Era
    • Holdings for:   LCCN SN85041112
    • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 12404131

Newspapers Neighboring Lake Mills ...

The following newspapers were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> of Lake Mills.

The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Lake Mills.

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Lake Mills) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lake Mills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.0739, Longitude: -88.9082       In this case, the coordinates for Lake Mills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).